The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 224 - 167 Jiang Shu, this damn guy!
Chapter 224: Chapter 167 Jiang Shu, this damn guy!It was already 10:30 PM, and Jiang Shu was walking on the main street in District D.

Floating beside him was Xiao Jia with a power bank, displaying a 3D overview map of the entire street and some colored dots.

Different colored dots represented different things: surveillance, people, and other electronic devices.

This time, the Derivative Entry drawn was Xiao Jia, who had acquired the ”Spirit Technique,” significantly enhancing its information-gathering capabilities.

Now, Jiang Shu only needed to lightly tap the dots representing people on the screen to see their inner thoughts on Xiao Jia’s display.

Although he had just tried it, Mind Reading Technique was potent, but it still had its limitations.

For instance, the distance mattered—the closer the distance, the clearer the information obtained through mind reading. If it were more than ten meters away, too many interfering factors would result in mostly gibberish.

The ideal distance for mind reading was three to five meters, and it was best if there were no other people around to ensure the accuracy of the information gathered.

At that moment, Jiang Shu was contemplating whether closer contact would mean even more accurate mind reading...

He glanced at Xiao Yi beside him, who also showed a thoughtful ”loading” expression.

Yi: Heart-to-heart friend?

Bing: Complete trust?

Jiang Shu saw these two comments and smiled satisfactorily.

Cough cough.

Besides, Jiang Shu also discovered that many times, trying to read others’ minds yielded little.

It was just a stream of trivial information, scattered and of no value, and the thoughts always jumped inexplicably, looking quite like the whispers of the Ancient God.

Moreover, it was always filled with bizarrely erotic information, constituting a kind of mental pollution.

Therefore, he casually picked random passersby to test on the street, finding that to accurately read minds, one must specify a particular situation.

For example, asking questions, after questioning the target person, he could generally obtain the answers he wanted through mind reading, as no one could completely avoid contemplating the question.

Once the target pondered the question, he could garner the sought-after answers from their fragmented thoughts.

However, the nearly omniscient mind-reading seen in movies was not very realistic, as many factors could still interfere with the accuracy of mind reading.

Fortunately, this ability was an active entry—if it had been a passive one, Jiang Shu felt he would be driven mad by the whispers of the Ancient God.

Actually, it might be Xiao Jia who’d get annoyed, though it’s uncertain if silicon-based life could suffer from mental illness...

The Prediction of four minutes and twenty-five seconds was quite useful, correct about 89 percent of the time. However, unlike Magic, once the Prediction involved issues closely related to human emotions, its results became uncontrollable.

Similarly, if he intervened, the outcome of the Prediction might change.

The ability of Fantasy Materialization was pretty cool, allowing virtually anything to be materialized, though it also had one restriction.

Jiang Shu had to understand the object.

For instance, materializing a wrench or screwdriver was easy, but if it involved a gun, he would only materialize a model gun that couldn’t shoot.

The underlying logic was probably because he didn’t understand the basic principles of firearms. If he learned them, materializing handguns wouldn’t be difficult.

Moreover, he couldn’t materialize things that didn’t exist in reality, also preventing him from exploiting any bugs.

For example, Materialization couldn’t create an infinite, ultra-thin sword; the maximum blade length he could materialize was about two meters.

This was probably because such objects lacked justification for existence in the real world.

Classic scenes like ”a forty-meter long sword allowing you a thirty-nine-meter head start” were merely figments of his imagination.

Jiang Shu walked past a small alley, glanced inside, and paused his gaze on a dumpster deep within the dark alley.

He entered the alley and looked around; there was no one there.

Checking Xiao Jia’s screen for any surveillance indicators nearby, he leaped up and dove into the dumpster.

When he landed, his body had transformed into playing cards scattered inside the dumpster.

Four Tablet Spirits quietly awaited at the edge of the dumpster and, one by one, they also turned into playing cards and disappeared alongside the dumpster’s edge.

With the help of Paper Card Technique return and the swapping of Derivative Entries, Jiang Shu and the four Tablet Spirits arrived near the White Eagle Company, located several districts away.

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Fifth District. Qiushan Street. White Eagle Tower.

Jiang Shu stood on the street, fixing his eyes on the towering skyscraper, now dimmed yet with some lights still on in certain floors.

White Eagle Company maintained the typical tech company tradition of working overtime, with people often staying until midnight before leaving the office.

Besides AI, the company was also working on other high-tech products like various apps and high-end prosthetic eyes before it was acquired by the Dick Family.

These projects had been rebooted after the acquisition and were now standardizing, with products gradually entering market trials.

However, Jiang Shu knew that the most critical project, artificial intelligence, had not yet seen real progress.

Stepping into the shadow on the roadside now camouflaged in Invisibility, his body blanketed by equally invisible flames, the four Tablet Spirits settled on his shoulders, enjoying the invisibility.

Though called a tower, this place was actually a tech park, completely enclosed with walls, equipped with high-voltage electric fences and surveillance cameras, featuring other facilities like parking lots, security booths, employee dormitories, and laboratories apart from the main tower.